Sean & Emily

Like all modern romances, it began with a pandemic happy hour Zoom and a love for good conversation. 💻🍷

Emily was a Minnesota girl at heart, temporarily living out of a suitcase and wondering how life had landed her in an unexpected corner of the country. Originally from the UK, Sean had been rooted in Los Angeles for over a decade, writing books, sipping tea, and somehow making dry wit feel like a warm hug. What started as online hangouts quickly turned into in-person chemistry—and before long, things got wonderfully real. ✈️❤️

For the next couple of years, Emily crisscrossed the country for months at a time, balancing airports, work, and knitting needles with only mild turbulence. Eventually, love (and logistics) brought her to LA for good.

From the very beginning, Fiona—Sean’s daughter and our in-house matchmaker—seemed to know where this was going. On our very first day hanging out together, she grabbed each of our hands and kept trying to put them together. 👧🏽💞🫱🏼‍🫲🏽 She was right, of course.

Now, we're writing a new chapter as a family: full of laughter, learning, co-parenting, creativity, and the quiet certainty that we've found home in each other. 🏡✨

Baldwin Hills Scenic Overlook wasn't just a pretty backdrop. 🌄 It was the place where, early in their story, Sean realized something quietly enormous: he didn't just want to keep talking to Emily—he wanted to kiss her. 😘 Later, when she came back to LA as his girlfriend, they returned to that same spot and kissed properly, with all the clarity that comes from being on the same page.

So when they planned to take some family photos there with Fiona, Emily already had a hunch. The box, the setting, the timing—it all lined up. 🗃️🕰️ Sean, to his credit, still gave it his all: one knee, one ring, and one very proud kid standing between them, grinning like the mastermind she is. 👧🏽💍🦊

Fiona was the only one truly surprised—which is poetic, considering she tried to make them hold hands the very first day they met. 🫱🏼‍🫲🏽❤️

No flash mobs. No skywriting. Just a quiet, perfect moment in a place that already meant everything, shared by the people who made it unforgettable. ✨